TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMahon,Thomas A.
TI  - Loving little Egypt
SN  - 0140093311 [newsprint]
PY  - 1988///
CY  - 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010, USA
PB  - Viking Penguin Inc.
KW  - People with visual disabilities
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Telecommunication systems
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Telephone
KW  - Blind
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Fantasy fiction
N2  - Summary: In the early 1920s Mourly Vold, a nearly blind physics prodigy, discovers a way to tap into the long-distance telephone line and set up a communications network with other blind people nationwide. William Randolph Hearst is appalled, Alexander Graham Bell is delighted- and Mourly Vold, a folk hero of sorts, finds himself on a quixotic adventure into the heart of American big business
ER  -